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Archaeological Prospection is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS AHCI/SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1075-2196Verify ISSN ↗1099-0763Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,980 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 20 / 1936 | 98th | Q1 |
| Archeology | 16 / 388 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Archaeological Prospection is Q1 in History (rank 20 of 1936) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 16 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Archaeological Prospection is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.505, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 48.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,980 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Archaeological Prospection is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1075-2196 and its online ISSN is 1099-0763.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Archaeological Prospection has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 1.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Archaeological Prospection published 68 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (12.5%), Italy (9.1%) and United States (7.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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